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which is a compilation album of EP tracks. Its complete title is ''Crippled Lucifer (Seven Psalms for Our Lord of Light)''. It consists of three tracks taken from their '' Rift.Canyon.Dreams'' release ("Warning Signs", "Stillborn" and "History of Hell") and four tracks from their '' Towers...'' release ("Sacred Predictions", "Country Doctor", "Tower Place" and "Sea Hag"). It was first released on CD in 1998 on

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and Bad Acid Records. Bad Acid released the European digipack version of which only 2000 were made. Southern Lord handled the American release of which there were effectively three presses. The first pressing's cover was incorrectly printed so it was repressed. Then, it was pressed for a third time, this time with a different cover altogether. In 1999, it was released on cassette by

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. In 2008, Southern Lord reissued the album as a double-disc set, restoring the one missing track from ''Rift.Canyon.Dreams'', and two tracks from splits that also got excluded from the single-disc version, as well as the original track order. This re-issue was renamed ''Crippled Lucifer (Ten Psalms for Our Lord of Light)'' due to the extra tracks. In this reissue, disc one, tracks 1-4 are the ''Towers'' EP, disc one, track five is from the split with

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, disc two, tracks one through four are the ''Rift.Canyon.Dreams'' EP, and disc two, track five is from the split with

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. Also, for the limited edition mailorder version (which is 2000 numbered copies), there is a dropcard which allows the owner to download a rare live show (with an unreleased song "Jubilex") as well as the unreleased demo. These six tracks were also released as the third disc of the Japanese edition.

Track listing

2008 reissue

References

1998 albums Burning Witch albums Southern Lord Records albums {{1990s-metal-album-stub